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34,420 citations from literature (mostly science fiction and fantasy) referring to real churches, religious groups, tribes, etc. [This database is for literary research only. It is not intended as a source of information about religion.]

Disney, continued...

[Year estimated.] "I look at them [the lizard-like aliens] sometime and wonder if I'm crazy. Can't afford to be, not if I've got to deal on a daily basis with things that look as if they walked out of a Walt Disney cartoon feature. "

Disney

Luna

2040

Bova, Ben. Moonrise. New York: Avon Books (1996); pg. 256.

"His world was contained to this metallic nest beneath the hopper, with a few containers and tanks around them. The nozzle of the hopper's main engine hung between him and Brennart like a bell in a church spire.

An old tune sprang to his mind: 'It's a Small, Small World.' Idiot, Doug snarled to himself. You've being fried by a solar flare and you're thinking about childhood songs. "

Pg. 124: "'What are you reading? Oh--the DisneyMars guide! When can we go?'

'That depends on how well a certain young lady does her homework.' "; Pg. 125: "DisneyMars was tiny compared to its famous terrestrial forebears, but once you were inside, there was no way of telling that. By means of dioramas and holographic projections, it showed Mars as men had once believed or dreamed it might be... " [More about DisneyMars, with rides based on the science fiction of Burroughs and H. G. Wells, pg. 125-126, 130.]

"But he couldn't stop his mind from turning his sweetheart to a Disney character. The Blue Fairy. Her light increased. Her smile spread slowly into jag-toothed mercy and then her voice flowed, the cool of a river. Once, very drunk, he had watched the movie Pinocchio eight or ten times in a row with successive nieces and nephews, their friends, their friends' cousins, then the cousins' cousins and friends. By the time the night came on and the children were draped in slumber on the floor and on pillows and heaps of blankets and clothes, he had fallen in love with the Blue Fairy. " [More, pg. 96-98, etc.]

"...though Tamchu would not have known if it was a recent fantasy construction like many of the Western cities he'd heard about. They were starting some of that in Kathmandu. Disney had torn down an ancient Hindu temple, first removing all of the sacred monkeys who littered the place with their feces. Now strange monkeylike creatures roamed the temple, and no one knew if they were robots or artificially created organic creatures with only a few rote responses programmed into them. "

"And then one day Melanie hit the jackpot, selling a series of five children's books for a thirty-thousand-dollar advance, with a movie option for a thirty-thousand-dollar advance, with a movie option from the Disney empire for twice that much. "

"We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. "

Disney

New York

1994

Brooks, Terry. The Tangle Box. New York: Ballantine (1994); pg. 1.

"Horris Kew might have been a Disney artist's rendering of Ichabod Crane. He was tall and gawky and had the look of a badly assembled puppet. His head was too small, his arms and legs too long, and his ears, nose, Adams apple, and hair stuck out all over the place. "

"The crowds were starting to thing out, almost as though the epic battle over the East River had been equivalent to the nightly fireworks at Disneyland, signaling families it was time to take the kids home. "

Pg. 102: "Like the hedge of magically sprouting thorns in Sleeping Beauty, neural roots sprang from Serleena's hands... "; Pg. 234: "They are a kingdom in the clouds, a realm unto themselves, a conglomeration of individual sites as culturally diverse as Disney's Small World ride. New York City rooftops can encompass anything from simple swaths of tar... "

Pg. 10: "some of my non-ballplaying schoolmates called me Dumbo. "; Pg. 11: "...to see Dumbo, a Disney flick about a pint-sized elephant with a humongous ears. Hilarious movie. A scream. And I was the perfect sap to stick a tag like Dumbo on because I couldn't or wouldn't talk and had me this really terrific set of ears. Ha ha. " ['Dumbo' also pg. 93, 117, 277, 413-414, 444-445, 461-462, etc.]

Disney

Ontario

2002

Sawyer, Robert J. Hominids. New York: Tor (2002); pg. 209.

"An image of a contented Baloo from Disney's Jungle Book came to her mind. "

Disney

Ontario

2002

Sawyer, Robert J. Hominids. New York: Tor (2002); pg. 349.

"Invitations sent to Ponter Boddit for all-expense-paid visits received c/o the Sudbury Star: Disneyland; the Anchor Bar and Grill, home of the original chicken wing in Buffalo, New York; Buckingham Palace; the Kennedy Space Center; Science North; the UFO museum in Roswell, New Mexico; Toronto's Zanzibar Tavern strip club; Microsoft headquarters; next world's World Science Fiction Convention; The Neanderthal Museum in Mettmann, Germany; Yankee Stadium. "

"'And perhaps we can have Mickey Mouse climb out of his Florida ocean like a drowned rat to deliver them. And Prince Charming Lauterbach will bring them strapped to his white charger...'

...'Wake up, my friend. Mickey Mouse is dead. There are no more Communists. And there are no more winters like that,' "

Disney

Singapore

1982

Straub, Peter. Koko. New York: E. P. Dutton (1988); pg. 139.

"'I think Walt Disney went crazy one day,' said Conor Linklater, 'and said '[Expletive] the kids, let's invent Singapore and just make money.' ' "

Disney

Solar System

2030

Hogan, James P. Entoverse. New York: Ballantine (1991); pg. 91.

Pg. 91: "Twelve hours after leaving Earth, the Vishnu was five hundred million miles past the mean orbit of Uranus... they had been joined by the schoolteacher from Florida, whose name was Bob, and two of the Disney World marketing executives, Alan and Keith. "; Pg. 111: "Alan, one of the marketing executives from Disney World, sat across from Danchekker for the descent. 'That VISAR system is something else,' he said, making conversation. 'It's incredible. We ought to think about getting something like that into DW.' "; Pg. 113: "Alan and Keith from Disney World... "

"Everything was so beautifully maintained, presumably by armies of robots, but occasionally Poole was reminded of a visit he had made to Disney World as a small boy. But this was even better: there were no crowds, and indeed very little reminder of the human race and its artifacts. "

Disney

Sweden

1973

Batchelor, John Calvin. The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica. New York: Dial Press (1983); pg. 3.

Pg. 3: "I am Grim Fiddle. My mother, Lamba, firs spied me in her magic hand-mirror late in the evening of the spring equinox of 1973. She was dancing by herself at the time, at the rear of a shabby beer hall called THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB, located in the foreign quarter of Stockholm... "; Pg. 9: "THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB was a series of concentric ovals, the inmost being the bar, the next being the booths... " [More about this club, pg. 9-10, 59, 258.]

"Dickens' story, A Christmas Carol... In the books department of Harridge's, where I work, we have nineteen, including Mickey's Christmas Carol, The Muppet Christmas Carol, the Cuddly-Wuddlys' Christmas Carol... "

"'It's got to be a fictional character,' Rutgers said. 'He admitted himself it's the hardest to guess.'

'No, his is always a fictional character. I needs to be someone real. And someone obscure. Anastasia!'

'I would hardly call Anastasia obscure,' I said.

'No, but if he asks 'Is the person living?' we can say we don't know, and he'll think it's a fictional character.'

'What if he's already asked if it's a fictional character and we've said no?'

'But it was a fictional character,' Leda said. 'I saw the Disney film when I was little.' " [Note: This wasn't actually a Disney film, but was a film produced and directed by famed animator Don Bluth for Twentieth Century Fox.]

Disney

United Kingdom: England

1810

Powers, Tim. The Anubis Gates. New York: Ace (1983); pg. 191.

"My God, he thought, as much awed as frightened, I look like the wolf man--or Chewbacca--or the guy in that French movie of Beauty and the Beast--or, no, I've got it, the Cowardly Lion of Oz. "

"Among the guests who had assembled to watch Graham's latest treasures, Dietrich's screen test for The Blue Angel, Walt Disney's menstruation film and a copy of Double Indemnity, that began in the death cell... "

"Coonskin caps (May 1955 - December 1955) -- Children's fad inspired by the Walt Disney television series Davy Crockett, about the Kentucky frontier hero who fought at the Alamo and 'kilt a bar' at age three. Part of a larger merchandising fad that included bow-and-arrow sets, toy knives, toy rifles, fringed shirts, powder horns, lunchboxes, jigsaw puzzles, coloring books, pajamas, panties, and seventeen recorded versions of 'The Ballad of Davy Crockett,' to which every child in America knew all the verses... The fad collapsed right before Christmas of 1955, leaving merchandisers with hundreds of unwanted caps. "

"Up ahead, on the other side of the street, a movie marquee splashed light through the drizzle. Black letters spelled out a greeting:

WALT DISNEYTRIPLE FEATURECONTINUOUS PERFORMANCESFOR CHILDREN OF ALL AGES

That's me, Melissa decided [a child of all ages]. "

Disney

USA

1990

De Haven, Tom. Walker of Worlds. New York: Doubleday (1990); pg. 40.

Pg. 40: "'Richard. what's up?' Boman made a little check mark in his Disneyana catalog: a musket from Swiss Family Robinson. One of his favorite movies, from when he was a kid. "; Pg. 42: "While he waited for... he looked some more through his Disneyana catalog, jotting an X beside a Mickey Mouse one-sheet from 'Society Dog Show,' and a question mark beside a pair of Chip and Dale bookend. "; Pg. 99: "Would John Forsythe have a Mickey Mouse telephone on his desk, a 'Star Trek' poster on the wall?... crammed with little toys. Donald Ducks and Fred Flintstones. "; Pg. 129: "Boman's gaze dropped to the Disneyana catalog on the table. "; Pg. 162: "...a Mickey Mouse telephone. "

Disney

USA

1990

De Haven, Tom. Walker of Worlds. New York: Doubleday (1990); pg. 235.

"it actually looked like the wishing well in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, she thought, which seemed kind of appropriate. "

Disney

USA

1990

Turtledove, Harry. A World of Difference. New York: Ballantine (1990); pg. 209.

"The KGB studied Disneyland because visiting Soviet dignitaries liked to go there. One of the attractions, Lopatin had learned from a friend, was something called 'Mr. Toad's Wild Ride.' Never having read The Wind in the Willows, Lopatin did not know much about this Mr. Toad, but was sure the ride he was taking was wild enough to horrify any amphibian ever hatched. " [More.]

"There was quite a parking lot. It wasn't Disneyland, but I had to figure that several hundred people were working here... "; Pg. 124: "...but I couldn't remember much of anything beyond the Walt Disney videotape. I wasn't even sure I actually ever had read it--not Through the Looking-Glass, anyway. Alice, yeah, at some point. . . . " [More about the Disney film, pg. 280.]

Randle, Kristen D. The Only Alien on the Planet. New York: Scholastic Inc. (1995); pg. 114.

"So I just grinned at him and started filling my plate. The table was like a gastronomic Disneyland -- silver trays draped with doilies and mounded with little sandwiches, tarts, bits of fruit, and fancy things that bore only a faint resemblance to food as we know it... "

Disney

USA

1996

Knight, Damon. Humpty Dumpty: An Oval. New York: Tor (1996); pg. 172.

"Its face was that of a Disney puppet, with a round spot of rouge painted on either cheek. "

"The acid was in the glue backing of a Mickey Mouse decal. Mickey was dressed as the Sorcerer's Apprentice, gesturing up stars, and you were supposed to lick off the LSD and then slap the decal onto your forehead. Too cute by half, Peter thought... "

Disney

USA

1997

Bear, Greg. The Forge of God. New York: Tor (1987); pg. 346.

"'I called the auto club,' Francine said, 'and asked what traffic was like between here and Seattle, and down the coast. They say it's really light. That's surprising. You'd think everybody would be off playing hooky, off to Disneyland or the parks.' "

"'You know what a decoy is, don't you? A sitting duck!' Effortlessly he switched to a Donald Duck voice (with a British twang) and quacked, 'Well, come along, ducks, we mustn't keep the paying customers waiting.'

'What are we going to do now?' Trick asked.

'It's time to go down to the ballroom'--Donald Duck suddenly vanished from his voice--'and let them shoot you' "

Disney

USA

1999

Anderson, Jack. Millennium. New York: Tor (1994); pg. 290.

"'Phil,' Corey said, slapping down a phone-message slip. Then he tossed down another one. 'Sally.' Then he began dealing them out like cards at a poker game. 'Montel. Trisha. Oprah. Leeza. Vicki. Ricki.' He stopped. 'This sounds like the Seven Dwarves.' "

Disney

USA

1999

Hand, Elizabeth. Glimmering. New York: HarperCollins (1997); pg. 143.

Pg. 143: "But GFI was certainly solvent, at least right now. One of the world's biggest corporations, after Disney and Matsushita... "; Pg. 48: "...the never-completed Disney towers. " [Probably a reference to the novel's frequently-mentioned character Jerry Disney, who has no connection to the Walt Disney company.]

"'It's a Viagra convention in here, seriously. Just kidding, darlings. I'm bad, I know. God bless Viagra, that's all I got to say. Really, that drug is like Disneyland, honestly. You wait two hours for a three-minute ride.' "

"'Bloodbags and charges every six centimeters or so under the synflesh,' came the slurred voice of the young man named Newton. 'Used to work for Disney. Know all about that animate stuff.' "

Disney

USA

2026

Moffett, Judith. Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream. New York: St. Martin's Press (1992); pg. 52.

"And then Ellis's gang got busy and planned a trip anyway, just the four of them, for the second two weeks of the vacation. They were going to Walt Disney World, where the 'Hefn Home World' attraction had just opened. "

Disney

USA

2026

Moffett, Judith. Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream. New York: St. Martin's Press (1992); pg. 55.

"...and the extravagant remake of Huckleberry Finn released in 2010, the hundredth anniversary of Mark Twain's death. They had ridden the replica steamboats at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. If the boats were slow, they said, let them be fun. However spartan the accommodations within, let them look like floating palaces from the shore... "

Disney

USA

2026

Moffett, Judith. Time, Like an Ever-Rolling Stream. New York: St. Martin's Press (1992); pg. 248.

"'Yeah, that people travel long distances to visit, because of something they read or see on TV.'

'I take it you don't mean, like, Walt Disney World?'

'What do you take me for, an Ellis De Marco clone? Of course not!... Not vacation spots, or natural wonders...' "

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